Leftist editorialist and editorial cartoonist Ted Rall just won't let us forget that Barack Obama isn't ideologically pure. (Maybe Rall is rooting for Cynthia McKinney for president...) Still, I do like this 'toon of Rall's because it's fucking funny, even though comparing Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Jesus Christ is a bit hyper-hyperbolic even for an editorial 'toonist, and I think that it's way premature to suggest that Obama just might be in league with the Devil... (Besides, the Devil endorsed Billary Cunton, not Barack Obama. By the way, the quote of Jesus' that Rall refers to is found at Matthew 19:24, wherein Jesus states, "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." That's not a quote of Jesus' that you hear the Repugnicans repeat much...)
N w what?
So I'm still deciding how much more I want to do for Barack Obama's campaign for the White House.
First and foremost, I wanted DINO (Democrat in name only) Billary Cunton knocked out of the race. It was like pulling fucking teeth, but fucking finally we can say: Mission accomplished!
Toward accomplishing that mission, I gave Obama some $$$, earned him several supporters (who might otherwise have stupidly -- OK, I'll be diplomatic for fucking once and say misguidedly -- supported Cunton) by word of mouth (I'm a little bit of an opinion leader in my small circle of associates), and I'd like to think that my blog earned Obama at least a few more supporters than he'd otherwise have had.
Where Billary is concerned, I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm fine with a woman as president of the United States of America. Just not the pro-Vietraq War Repugnican Lite Billary Cunton. Give me a strong woman as president -- not a woman who, thinking that she has to out-testosterone the stupid white men, just acts like a cunt.
Give me a strong woman like my Sen. Barbara Boxer, who got to where she is not because of whom she is married to, but who got there on her own, and who had the courage to vote against the Vietraq War and who was the only U.S. senator who had the courage to speak out against the stolen presidential vote in Ohio in 2004 (and who recently led an effort in the Senate to get the United States on board with slowing down global warming).
But Barbara Boxer didn't run -- Billary Cunton did. To see Billary and her supporters act as though what's between one's legs is more important than the principles for which she or he stands is nauseating -- and it's reverse sexism. Yes, the United States could use a woman as president; about the last thing the United States needs, however, is President Billary Cunton.
Anyway, now that Obama finally dropped the house on Billary and possesses the ruby slippers, I need to decide how much more I'm going to do for the Obama campaign.
There is no question that Obama is going to win my state of California, and it will be winner takes all in November, so there is nothing to fight for here in California.
I guess we'll see how the polling match-ups between Obama and Repugnican John McCain look over the next few weeks. Recent national polls have Obama beating McCain by as many as six percentage points. I suppose that although Obama has sewn up California already, if it appears as though fossil fool McCain has a real chance at the White House, I'll do what I can for Obama's national campaign, even if it means just giving $$$.
But I can't imagine the general election being even close. McCain is using the BushCheneyCorp themes of war! and terror! that barely fucking worked in BushCheneyCorp's "re"-election campaign of 2004 (although the BushCheneyCorp fuckers called 2004's election results a "mandate," a la 1984, in fact the Bush regime received only 50.7 percent of the popular vote to John Kerry and John Edwards' 48.3 percent -- even with the Repugnicans' election fraud at least in Ohio).
The Obama camp's frequent claim that President Fossil Fool McCain would represent a third BushCheneyCorp term is not only accurate, but it's going to stick. McCain is the quintessential stupid white man in a nation that has just been ransacked by stupid white men, and in a youth-worshipping culture, the septuagenerian McCainasaurus is going to do about as well as the crusty and musty Repugnican Bob Dole did against Bill Clinton in 1996.
McCain should be toast.
In the meantime, leftists are going to continue to point out how ideologically impure Barack Obama is. It is true that Obama is not a radical leftist's wet dream, although the wingnuts claim otherwise. Obama, among other things, does not support legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states, but states that each of the states should decide whether to have legalized same-sex marriage. "States' rights" is an argument usually used by the wingnuts to justify their crimes against humanity, isn't it? And Obama did sell his own former pastor down the river when his former pastor's past words -- most of which I agree with -- rattled overcomfortable whites.
But, unlike Billary, Obama wasn't singing along with McCain, "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran!" And Obama wasn't cozying up to the mouth-breathing gun nuts like the booze-tossing Billary was, claiming that anyone who can read the big words is an "elitist."
The choice between Billary and Obama was clear, and the better of the two candidates emerged as the victor.
If you are going to be ideologically pure in your campaign for the White House, if you are going to say whatever you believe, regardless of how the voters are going to take it, then you're going to be about as successful as was Democrat Dennis Kucinich in his quest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. In other words: Good. Luck. With. That.
As Jack Nicholson might tell the American electorate: You can't fucking handle the fucking truth.
Let's please not blame Barack Obama for that fact. Let's please blame the American electorate for that sad fucking fact.
As far as I can tell, Obama has been doing what he has had to do in order to beat Billary Cunton yet still win the Democratic presidential nomination. If he hadn't "sold out," as smug leftists might so casually accuse him of having done, what would the alternative have been? (A: Democratic presidential nominee Billary Cunton.)
So it would be nice if the ideologically pure talking heads would put down their lattes for a fucking moment and actually lift a finger to help their nation by helping the best viable candidate get into the White House, recognizing that politics is a dirty business that is about getting as much as you can, and that in politics it's exceedingly rare that you get all that you want.
From what I can tell, Barack Obama is the best that we can do for November 2008, and our choice is to do the best that we can do or to sit on our latte-sipping asses and do nothing, claiming that we are too ideologically pure to get our immaculate hands dirty in the messy reality of politics.
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